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Venus is one of the older, more advanced planets in our solar system. So ancient are our people, that my ancestors were able to watch Earth in its development and to explore the green planet when it first became livable. Since then, we have grown spiritually, culturally and technically as a civilization, and as individuals, to a point inconceivable to the people of Earth. So radically different is life on Venus that it would be useless for me to jump right into the story of my life there or mention such simple things as my birth or my home, without these chapters about our culture and history.

When we say that the basic difference between Tythanians and the people of Earth lies in each individual’s self-awareness, that is still a world of difference. The growth of a planet over millions of years depends on how spiritually awake and aware the people become.

Whenever the people of Venus speak of their culture, their technology, or any facet of their lives, credit always goes to our planetary science or teaching called the Laws of the Supreme Deity. Only through this advanced form of science, where spirituality and science are two faces of the same thing, have we grown in so many ways.

Only through an awareness of this science can people on Earth begin to understand the Venusian life, and my own life. Without the Laws of the Supreme Deity, Venus would be as Earth is today.

As a child I was well grounded in the fundamentals of the Laws, as is every child and every adult on Venus, because the teaching had long ago been discovered to be the true way, the true understanding for the entire planet. Only later in life, on Earth, would I realize how very precious the Laws of the Supreme Deity had been, and how fortunate I was to have received a thorough grounding in this teaching.

Knowing of Karma and the purpose of life in the physical world, and being aware of worlds beyond the physical universe, I found it much easier to survive the nightmares of my life on Earth. During my life on Venus I had gained the emotional strength necessary for me to cope with the hardships ahead. I was able to understand and accept life and my own difficulties more maturely.

Yet anyone on Earth who is open to this teaching can rise above the problems of the physical world. I was told about the future of this teaching shortly before I left Venus. One day, the Laws of the Supreme Deity will be recognized on Earth for what they really are. The seeds have already been planted. Our people plan to become more and more involved in making this a reality.

An understanding that becomes a living experience for the individual studying the Laws of the Supreme Deity, is exactly what it means by I. Many different ideas can fill your mind when you ask yourself, “Who am I?” On Earth, there will be as many different conceptions as there are people. It is this self-conception that makes such a world of difference in anyone’s life, whether he lives on Venus or Earth, or on any other planet in any galaxy. To grow into the full realization as to what and who you really are, turns out to be the purpose of life in this physical universe and several other universes. All the experience that an individual can have through countless lifetimes culminates in a full awakening and a total awareness as to who you really are. The Laws of the Supreme Deity is a spiritual teaching, though under many different names, that has always existed, whether secretly or openly, on every planet, for those who are ready to achieve the goal of their many lifetimes of trial and experience.

Every individual on every planet is Soul – nothing more and nothing less. I use this word Soul because the Venusian word for it would be just a word to you. Whereas on Earth, Soul has been used for a long time by religions and spiritual philosophies, and comes close to what we mean6. However, through the Laws of the Supreme Deity we do not stop at saying “I am Soul”, or merely believing it. We know it through conscious experience in the Soul body, using our most powerful senses and faculties which reside there.

Soul is so real that no one should have to wait until death to learn about its reality. It can be experienced now. In the physical world, Soul is usually considered to be located at a point just between and behind the eyes of the physical body. However, you as Soul can also learn to detach yourself from the physical body while it is still alive, so that you may be several feet from the body, miles away, or in one of the worlds which the religions call Heaven.

Soul is a unit of awareness. It can know, be and see. Much more cannot be said about its basic nature, except that in quality, Soul is a duplicate of the Being called God. If you were to close your eyes and sit very still, away from noises and distractions, you will find one point in the body where you are most awake. Usually it’s a spot in the center of the head behind and between the eyes which can be separate from and aware of physical sensations, sounds, sights, thoughts, and feelings. We have an indescribable something which can observe all the things a person may falsely believe he is. This detached observer is Soul, the real You.

If you close your eyes and create the face of a friend on the screen of your mind, it would be Soul that is looking at the picture. The mind is not looking, because it is only the tool used to form and hold the image.

Another way to experience the reality of Soul goes like this. As I speak to a friend, are the words coming from my mouth myself? Of course not! But if I were to watch carefully as I speak, being fully aware of each word as it comes out, I will begin to notice that something is listening to those words.

It is not a thought but a unit of awareness. Why is it not a thought, or the mind? Because I can think a certain clear thought as “I wonder if there is a difference between the mind and Soul”, and be aware of it as the thought passes through my mind. The still, silent something which watches thoughts being produced by the mind, and knows they are thoughts, is the unit of awareness we call Soul. Very often we confuse thoughts with the unit of awareness that can watch them. We can have a thought such as, “I am fully aware of my thoughts”, accept it as true, and forget that it too is only a thought. It too can be consciously watched as Soul. The awareness and the mental world of man are two different things.

By far the best way of finding out that you are Soul is to leave the body in Soul form while you are still living. This is called an out-of-body experience and it proves that you are something beyond the physical body.

It is useless to become involved in how old you are as Soul, because Soul Itself exists beyond time and space. Counting the many lifetimes before this one, you are easily many millions of years old. Through all those lifetimes you have remained the individual, and you will continue to be an individual after the last physical incarnation. The physical bodies, personalities, surroundings, and experiences may have changed, but always there was the real awareness, the real you, learning lessons and unfolding spiritually. To learn, grow, and awaken was the reason that Soul came into the physical world in the first place, eons ago.

Soul’s journey to the physical world involved many other worlds beyond ours. These are the so-called parallel universes I spoke of, which the Venusians and many other peoples discovered and explored. To the people of Venus, these planes of existence are the ultimate frontier, containing within them the answers to all of the mysteries of life.

On Earth books have been written about other worlds, and people have wondered about them ever since they were able to wonder, but few have discovered the secrets of consciously visiting these worlds during their physical lifetimes. Even this will change in the near future. To consciously experience them once could prove their reality, but to never experience them at all leaves them vague and unreal to that one.

Each of these worlds or planes of existence has a different rate of vibration or frequency. The matter in the world just beyond the physical is at so high a frequency that a person living there could easily pass through walls, mountains, and even people here. The highest sounds here, beyond detection by Earth scientists, are the lowest sounds in the plane beyond the physical universe. This explains why the existence of these worlds is a religious matter on Earth, rather than a scientific matter of personal experience.

The worlds beyond have very much in common with the physical world, but they are all much more beautiful and heavenly. They too have all kinds of people, cities and villages, animals, plants, mountains, oceans, deserts, and sunsets; but in every imaginable way, these worlds are vastly more beautiful than the most advanced planets here. The colors are out of this world, so radiant and breathtaking that words cannot do justice to them. The universe just one step beyond ours is so beautiful that many people who live there after “death” mistakenly believe it is the ultimate Heaven.

I use a familiar analogy to help explain how these worlds are designed. First let us take a centrifuge, which is a scientific instrument that spins liquids at high speeds. If we take a mixture of water, mud, sand, and stones and spin it at high speed in the centrifuge, the heavier materials will collect at the outer edge in the order of their heaviness. As we look toward the center, we will see less and less gross materials, until in the innermost area we find only air.

The outermost layer can be thought of as the physical universe, the densest and most material of all the universes. As we look toward the center, we will find the layers having finer and finer materials. These are like the worlds of time and space, where everything is at the higher frequencies. To a person living there, things are as real and solid as to us in the physical world. This is because the senses used there are at the same higher frequencies. Likewise, our physical senses cannot record objects and people there because physical senses were designed for use in the physical universe only.

The very center of the spinning liquid, where there is only air, can be compared to the pure spiritual worlds beyond time and space. These worlds are the home of Soul and what religions call God, the Ultimate Reality. Soul originates in the pure, positive spiritual worlds beyond time and space, but It was born as an unconscious atom in this cosmic sea.

The Supreme Deity Itself is actually a void. It has no relationship to anything outside of It. This is why nothing can be said about It. But It can be experienced. The best thing to say is, “It just is!”

Issuing forth from the Supreme Deity, sustaining and giving life to all worlds including the physical is the audible life stream of Spirit. Matter and energy in our physical world are nothing more than this universal energy whose vibrations have been stepped down. It is within this sea of Spirit that Soul exists. It is a part of Spirit. As an unconscious atom when it was first created Soul did not know who It was, what the Supreme Deity was, why It existed, and what the power is that It can control. It was asleep in this ocean of Spirit and somehow needed to be awakened to the fact that It even existed.

In order to provide Soul an opportunity to wake up, the Supreme Deity created the worlds of form where the opposite of Spirit exists, which we call the Kal or negative power. There Soul could be tested and purified in polarity until it became aware. There it could acquire the experience necessary to awaken and then be a conscious atom separate from the body of God, and yet a part of it. It will then remain an individual being for all eternity.

Soul exists naturally in the pure, positive spiritual worlds, where there is no matter, energy, space, or time. Not a trace of the negative power exists here. These worlds are very real, but it is almost impossible to describe them with words, because they are beyond the realm of the mind and its workings. To know them a person must experience them for himself.

The denser worlds are constructed as a school for Soul through the creation of polarity between the positive and the negative forces. Soul remains in these worlds of polarity, positive and negative, only temporarily, until the schooling is accomplished and the Soul graduates. The lower world with the most Spirit is that level Soul first entered on its way down into the Physical Plane eons ago. This most heavenly plane of the lower worlds is called the Etheric Plane. In spiritual terminology it is the crossing over line, between the denser planes and the higher Spirit levels.

As Soul came in touch with these denser worlds, It needed to protect Itself with sheaths or bodies. The best protection for Soul in a lower plane happens to be a body made of the same materials as are found naturally on that plane.

The first body you took is more or less a clear sheath or light that surrounds the Soul. On Earth it is known as the subconscious mind, one of Soul’s most powerful instruments in the denser worlds. The limitless resources of man’s subconscious mind exist on the Etheric Plane, where many saints and mystics received the cosmic consciousness. As a world of being, it is as real as the Physical Plane; in many ways more real. The Etheric Plane has people, cities, beautiful landscapes and sights that can be seen and remembered by those of us on physical planets who have trained ourselves in the art of leaving the body.

The next lower plane that Soul entered on its way into the physical universe is called the Mental Plane. It also is a world of glorious sights and sounds, some of which are recorded in the religious literature of Earth. Your St. John is one individual who visited the Mental Plane during an out-of-body experience and described what he saw there, which included the capital city that was called Kailash. On this plane are the heavens of many of the world religions.

To exist in this rarified density, Soul must protect Itself with a coarser body, called the mental body or mind. Our mind is actually this body, and its energy appears as thought. Each of us has that body, for it is a tool that Soul uses to operate in the lower worlds. It has no life of its own, but depends on the energy Soul allows it to have.

Just below the Mental Plane is the Causal Plane, where Soul picked up the still coarser causal body. It allows Soul to have recall of past lives in the lower worlds. Some teachings on Earth call it the seed body because the karmic seeds of our actions are planted here to be reaped later.

On the Causal Plane is a region often called the Akashic. Although the true Akashic records really exist beyond the lower worlds, those who visit the Causal Plane have the chance to learn of our past lives on the planes below the causal. The famous American psychic, Edgar Cayce did just that. He viewed these records in his investigations of past lives. Any person can in time learn to visit the Causal Plane and discover facts about his own past lives on Earth and other planets.

Below the Causal Plane in frequency is the plane which plays the greatest part in people’s physical lives – the Astral Plane. This is where you, as Soul, picked up the astral body, and with it the ability to register what you call emotion. For this reason the Astral Plane is also called the emotional plane. When a person experiences emotion, this is really an energy flowing through the astral body. In any lifetime, your astral body is an exact duplicate of the physical body, only more beautiful and perfected to behold.

The Astral Plane as well as the other worlds of time and space is a very real world. In fact, everything we know in the physical world, such as people, mountains, trees, homes, and cities existed first in the astral world. The Physical Plane was created with the astral in mind, but in a less colorful and luminous way. People living on the Astral Plane have more powers, such as telepathy, manifesting things with the mind, and traveling at fantastic speeds without vehicles or devices. The astral body is luminous and does not have physical pain as we know it in the physical, which explains why people sometimes confuse this astral body with Soul.

Having all these bodies, Soul entered the lowest plane to begin the experiences which one day would lead to becoming a conscious co-worker with the Supreme Deity. We all know it as the physical universe, where Soul picked up the physical sheath or body which was needed to survive here and begin Its experiences.

In the beginning, when you first entered the Physical Plane, you were not immediately a human being in form. For Soul to have every possible experience, which everyone must have in order to be perfected, you need to experience every state of consciousness that the physical world has to offer.

The first experiences that you as Soul had, or the first level of consciousness that you lived within, was that of the mineral state. Granted, minerals do not seem to be very aware (as we think of it), but even the seemingly limited experiences possible by living that mineral state are necessary as Soul first begins to wake up and comprehend Its physical existence. In the beginning, most of us were in the mineral state for a long, long time, depending on what experiences we needed. Of course, you were never really a mineral or rock, but you as Soul inhabited such bodies on your way up.

Between lives there is a period of time where you are placed on a plane above the physical, according to your level of consciousness. In the very beginning most Souls go to the Astral Plane, staying for a while before reincarnating again into the physical universe.

After the mineral state and the experience in awareness at that level, Soul begins to have experiences in the plant state. As a plant, Soul can feel the sunshine and the wind and rain, and it serves as food for the higher forms of life. After many lives and deaths as moss, flowers, vegetables, and trees, on Earth and other planets, Soul is ready for the next step. It begins its lives in the animal state of consciousness.

As an individual, Soul will inhabit bodies that suit its own nature or individuality. Soul is the life force in the animal, but always remains a unique individual. It spends a great deal of time in the animal state of awareness, progressing from one species to another, from insects to reptiles, to birds, to mammals. These lives are not always on Earth, but on many different planets.

The last stage of physical unfoldment, and the highest state that Soul can reach in the physical world, is the human being. This is the divine apex of evolution in the physical universe, and is the form Soul uses to have Its final experiences here. As a human being, Soul must go through every possible experience. One lifetime is only a speck of time in evolution, much too brief a moment in the physical world to do all the learning and growing needed. Man on Earth does not even manage to complete one full cycle of 144 years in an incarnation.

Soul reincarnates as a human being over and over through millions of years in order to have all the experiences it needs. History is not the story of our ancestors; it is the story of our own lives, for we are our ancestors. Each of us has lived as many different characters, male and female, in many different races, on a number of planets, and in an almost uncountable number of circumstances and situations. Each time that we return, we arrive with a new body and a new mind.

New Souls are constantly being created, however, so that the lower worlds will continue to live. The Supreme Deity uses this plan of ever-constant life in order to live through Its creations and to never perish.

It is for our own benefit that the memories of our own past lives are hidden. If a person were deluged with so many memories, he could very easily end up in an institution. These memories are a part of Soul knowledge, of which we are not very aware until we become mature enough to handle it.

Anyone who is fortunate enough to remember experiencing the worlds beyond time and space knows that these lower worlds leave much to be desired. Why then, do we as Soul remain bound to the lower worlds for such a long time? In order for us to be purified and perfected, the negative power was established to bind us here as long as possible. Its instrument is the law of Karma, which, like the law of gravity, holds us here long before we become aware that it even exists. No one would dispute that the law of Karma is invisible, but the longer a person is unaware of how real it is, the longer will he be bound to the physical world.

Christ referred to the law of Karma when he said, “As you sow, so shall you reap.” Spiritual leaders of almost every religion or path on Earth at one time taught this universal law, and even today most people of Earth know of Karma, especially in the East.

It has been said that mind can be a useful servant, but a terrible master. Soul should always be in control of the denser bodies, but all too often it is not. Instead of Spirit controlling the mind, the Kal power can take over so that person will sink into the five passions of the mind – anger, vanity, lust, greed, and attachment to material things. As long as this is happening, Soul will be bound to the lower worlds through the creation of karmic debts; for as long as you have a debt to pay, you must be reborn.

Throughout the many incarnations as a human being, Soul is entangled in webs of Karma. You have been poor and rich, powerful and weak, famous and unknown, healthy and crippled, intellectually keen and slow-witted; but there comes a time that Soul approaches a state of balance in the physical world. As the individual is winding up his lives here, he begins to seek earnestly for answers to why he exists, why he is here, where he is going, and what the greatest power is that exists beyond the physical world. He finds that the conventional paths no longer satisfy him. At this point a person begins to become more aware of the person within himself – his feelings, thoughts, and intuitions. He may soon begin to consciously explore the planes beyond the physical in his search for truth.

No longer is Soul comfortable with the religions of the day, because there is not enough truth in them, not enough answers. As Soul, you are ready to seek something beyond the physical world.

This is when you discover a spiritual teaching that tells you about Soul, and about your existence before you were ever in the physical world. You find that by having this teaching consciously, you are able to learn the Journey of Soul. Through this art and science, you leave the physical body temporarily to visit and explore any or all of the worlds beyond the physical universe, in the Soul body. It is like teaching what religions call heaven before death; only this experience can prove life after death to each individual.

The Journey of Soul is the main feature of the Laws of the Supreme Deity, which sets it apart from other teachings. The whole system is based on personal experience within the planes beyond this one. Instead of hoping and trying to believe in life after death, the individual can experience life apart from the physical body and visit the places he will eventually inhabit, after the death of the physical body. He will learn the simple difference between death and the Journey of Soul.

In the Journey of Soul, he returns to his living, inhabitable body. In death, he can not return because the physical body is for some reason no longer operable. Instead of believing in reincarnation, he will know that it is real after visiting higher planes and having recall of his own past lives.

With this conscious knowledge, there is opportunity to balance out the Karma from past lives. When one learns that the physical body is just a vehicle in which to learn lessons, then he is reaching a point where it will not be necessary to incarnate in the denser worlds any more. You have a choice to become a conscious worker with the Creator, even before physical death.

The physical world is not the only place where Soul must balance out Its Karma. There are also the Astral, Causal, and Mental Planes Soul has lived and created debts. In Its upward journey, Soul cleans up all of its unfinished business in the lower worlds first. It is freed of the bonds of Karma and reincarnation when It is firmly established in the first of the spiritual worlds, called the Soul plane, beyond time and space.

Here you have Self-Realization, the first full realization that you are Soul. Several worlds above the Soul plane is that higher spiritual world where the God-consciousness is reached. Here Soul realizes that It and the Supreme Deity are the same. Soul has total awareness here, a state that can be reached while you are still physically alive. Even here its growth is not completed. Beyond are many more planes. Throughout eternity there is always one more step to go.

The Laws of the Supreme Deity is our name for a teaching that exists on every planet and every plane. Venus does not have any monopoly on it, but we do recognize it openly as our planetary spiritual teaching. Each planet has this teaching which originates beyond the denser worlds, to help those Souls who are ready to advance.

There are a mind-staggering numbers of denser world teachings whose purpose is to suit the consciousness of Souls who must stay in the denser worlds for additional experience. These were established to bind the Soul to the denser levels until it is strong enough and aware enough to escape. They have a limited truth and serve their purpose well, and they are varied to suit the many levels of consciousness that exist in the denser worlds.

Each individual must be careful not to be trapped by a teaching which does not satisfy his inner need for truth. The seeker must also be wary that he does not mistake a lower plane, within the realm of Karma, for the true spiritual worlds. The Astral Plane is today peopled by many who believe it is the ultimate heaven, so much more beautiful than the physical world is this plane.

Any planet whose people live in close accord with spiritual laws will have conditions that seem almost heavenly to people of Earth. Venus is the way it is because of the consciousness of the people living there. The same is true of Earth. Souls who have much negative Karma will be attracted together on one planet, to make negative experience possible.

I am not saying that Earth is a completely negative planet. It too is balanced by a positive side to life. Any planet or plane in the denser worlds, on which you exist, can be negative or positive for you depending on your own attitudes, for these create your personal world with the power of thought. It all depends on your level of consciousness awareness.

As I mentioned, Venus too was once a very negative planet, as Earth is today. Over several million years, the people of Venus grew to a point in their unfoldment that is not unique, but seems unique to the people of Earth because they are not aware of such things. Our spiritual and technical growth became so positive that our entire civilization no longer needed to exist on the Physical Plane. While the physical planet Venus did remain alive, the entire culture and its people achieved transition to the astral level.

6 Soul being the spiritual self of man and not the “psyche” as known in psychology. (Publisher’s comment).